Pastoral Meanderings

The mark of older chancels was often steps.  The altar was raised, the pulpit was raised, and the whole chancel was raised.  Sometimes there...

There are a thousand lighthouse jokes.  The one I am most familiar with has several incarnations.  The one my Canadian friend likes to tell ...

According to Study Finds: A survey of 2,000 Americans found that one in three (32%) say they’re currently experiencing an existential crisi...

Against the persistent chant of modernism which insists that the Church must change or die, there was a warning sent forth in 1933 by then C...

In the Pope's first encyclical, he has dismantled the just war theory Christianity has defended for a very long time.  In his mind, it i...